Wills and inventories survive for Basingstoke in Hampshire Record Office (HRO) and The National Archives (TNA).
Four wills and five inventories survive for this period. They represent prominent families in the parish.
Only three wills and one inventory survive for this period. None were tenants of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. They were presumably subtenants.
Five of the eight people for whom probate records survive in this period were copyholders of Corpus Christi College, Oxford properties.
Before the New Poor Law and the establishment of Union workhouses parishes had to take care of their poor in their own homes or in communal accommo
In 1630 merchant Robert Quirk built 11 dwellings for the poor on waste ground east of the cross beside the market place.
James Brydges (1674-1744), 1st Duke of Chandos, was a wealthy politician who made a huge fortune while serving in the lucrative office of Paymaster
There are no maps earlier than 1876 detailed enough to show property in the surveyed area, but we do know that a Charles Stringer in 1851 lived in
On census night, 30th March 1851, there were 4,262 residents, (2,113 male and 2,149 female), of whom just over half, 2,198, were born within 1 mile
